Quotes About Opportunity

Don't waste a single moment of your precious life! Wake up now! And now! And now! 6.

6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

Time slowed down, and each moment unfolded into a future filled with infinite possibilities.

the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

This is the chapter in which he praises his young monks for their commitment to a path of awakening and explicates the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.

Reminded us how exciting it was to abandon security and run toward the life that is waiting.

When something frightens me, it is definitely worth doing.

Development is a treacherous river, as everyone who plunges into its currents knows.

every evil thing has its defenders, because everywhere there are those whom evil sustains, for whom it is an opportunity, life itself.

Everybody knows what the world is like: anything can happen. And here is what happened on the Dune: five people, saving the land, saved themselves. What could they have wanted before that? To try one more time. To have a chance. And they were given that chance. 'It's good,' says Rysiek, 'that they gave it to us. And that it worked out.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I am alone, as I have always been; abandoned not by men, that would not pain me, but by the happy spirits of joy who in countless hosts encircled me, who met everywhere with their kind, pointed everywhere to an opportunity.

The bird keeps silent and waits: it knows, or rather it fully and firmly believes, that everything takes place at its appointed time. Therefore the bird waits, but it knows that it is not granted to it to know the hour or the day; therefore it keeps silent. Then, when the moment comes, the silent bird understands that this is the moment; it makes use of it and is never put to shame.

El azar propicio aparece tan rara vez que cuando se presenta o se encuentra, hay que saberlo agarrar con toda la fuerza; el seducir a una muchacha no es un arte, pero sí lo es, ¡y cómo!, saber encontrar a una muchacha que merezca que se la seduzca.

Remember, one lives only once; if it is neglected, if you do not come to suffer, if you avoid it—it is eternally irreparable

Vain mustalaisilla ja rosvoilla ja huijareilla on tunnuslauseenaan, että sinne, missä kerran on käyty, ei pidä koskaan tulla toista kertaa.

The truth was, she couldn't stand to let such an opportunity pass; she wanted to see what was behind the closed door, because it was there. Because leaving it unopened would get under her skin.

Perhaps we will meet again. Anything is possible, especially in a place like this.

you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.

Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward

Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.

If you get to live your life over, make the same mistakes -- only sooner.